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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Issues',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed one of my workmates didn&apos;t like the music I had playing.
		They were complaining that it was too downbeat.
		I forget which artist&apos;s work I had playing, but it might have been Brad Sucks.
		So I started trying to find the Rated Heart album, by Professor Shyguy.
		Shyguy&apos;s work is <strong>*much*</strong> more upbeat.
		For whatever reason, most of my Shyguy albums had just vanished on me though.
		I scrolled through the list of albums repeatedly, and they just weren&apos;t there.
		I knew they were supposed to be alphabetised, so I knew where to look for them, but they were gone.
		I even tried scrolling through the whole list though, to no avail
	</p>
	<p>
		Vanessa wouldn&apos;t stop pestering me.
		I told her to just let me finish really quickly with the album hunt, but she wouldn&apos;t stop bothering me.
		She wanted to play, and that involved physically hassling me.
		Finally, I lost my temper, grabbed her hand, and bit her thumb really hard.
		Wow.
		Why would I do that?
		Needless to say, she got pissed off and ran away.
		I still couldn&apos;t find that album though.
	</p>
	<p>
		Later, I went and apologised to her.
		She seemed to understand.
		That was a huge overreaction on my part though.
		I mean, seriously?
		Biting people?
		What am I, a three-year-old?
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not super picky about job sites.
			I&apos;ll use any, provided they allow you to read over postings without registration.
			There is absolutely zero valid reason to demand people register until they start trying to apply for a position.
			At that point, it makes sense to have them need to log in so they can manage their applications while not allowing other parties to mess with those same applications.
			Some sites though, not just job-hunting sites, think it&apos;s acceptable to demand everyone log in to view non-sensitive information even when they aren&apos;t submitting anything at the moment.
			When we, as users, give in and sign up (or even just sign in using an existing account), we&apos;re sending these companies the message that they&apos;re right, it&apos;s perfectly okay to engage in such obnoxious behaviour.
			Obviously, I&apos;m just one person, and my refusal to use such sites won&apos;t make a difference.
			However, when everyone has the attitude, that it won&apos;t make a difference, so they just give in, it adds up.
			Everyone who does that is a part of the problem.
			I may not be able to fix companies&apos; garbage behaviour, but I refuse to be a part of the problem.
			I refuse to encourage it.
		</p>
		<p>
			Mainly, I just use a regular search engine to search for jobs, and most of the search engine&apos;s results are job sites.
			So I visit those job sites if they let me, and if I find a job I want to apply for, I register if necessary and apply.
			But that&apos;s the thing: I don&apos;t register unless I&apos;ve got a job I want to apply for, which means that if I can&apos;t even view listings without applying, I won&apos;t see any particular listings I&apos;m interested in, and that site will lose it&apos;s chance to get me to apply at all.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I understand you used those links to reach the lists of jobs, but you also chose three specific jobs from those listings.
			You didn&apos;t link to the pages of the jobs you looked at.
			Or are you saying you didn&apos;t open the listings and read them?
			Are you saying you only used information from the page listing the listings?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a good point that Joomla! seems to be a means to an end, and not the actual goal of companies that use it.
			I guess for Joomla! to be the goal, you&apos;d probably need to have a company that hosts Joomla! sites on behalf of their clients, or something.
			Other than that, I can&apos;t see Joomla! being a goal in and of itself except for the Joomla! developers themselves.
		</p>
		<p>
			I haven&apos;t done any video work myself, but I too would be more nervous live in front of fifty people than in the form of a video seen by thousands.
			While the podcaster yo mention emphasises the size of the audience, the size of the audience isn&apos;t the biggest factor when it comes to being nervous like that.
			The issue is that you might <strong>*make a mistake*</strong> in front of all those people.
			In other words, you need to multiply the number of people by the probability of your making a mistake (such as fumbling for words) in front of them to get a better estimation of how nervous it makes sense to be.
			With a pre-recorded video, you&apos;ve got a chance to edit out any problems you have, or even rerecord the whole session if you need to.
			With a video, you can still get your facts wrong, but you have a chance to edit away most of the embarrassing stuff before anyone else gets a chance to see it.
			You can&apos;t do that in front of a live audience.
			Live audiences are scarier.
		</p>
		<p>
			I agree, one thing I like about free software is the fact that wheels need not be reinvented.
			Development time and efforts can therefore be put toward new inventions instead.
			It&apos;s just one of many ways that proprietary knowledge holds society back.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="mood">
	<h2>Mood</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve thought about it, and I don&apos;t think it&apos;s exclusively my boss that&apos;s got me in such a terrible mood lately.
		It&apos;s a combination of so many things.
		On the surface layer, you have not only my boss, but also my mother, who&apos;s currently avoiding me while I&apos;ve been trying to find a good time to talk to her.
		And below the surface, you have my school, which severely drains my mental and emotional energy through censorship.
		I&apos;ve got other things draining my energy too; things that don&apos;t take more energy than I should have, but due to everything else, that I don&apos;t have the energy for yet I&apos;m doing anyway.
		These things would include, for example, dealing with the bank and their nonsense, as well as reading over mythology to provide my thoughts on it.
		A few big things are overloading me, then all the little things I should have no problem with are piled on top of that.
	</p>
</section>
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